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Took Over Daughters tank after she went to college. Added Sea Urchin to combat Carpet Algae

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MikiCab

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My daughter is off to college and I moved her tank from her room to the living room. She always had an issue with Algae. So much so that it looked more like a Refugium rather than a fist tank. After all the cleaning and water changes carpet algae keeps growing in thick. Phosphates, Nitrates constantly near Zero. Added a Tuxedo Urchin and it looks like it is grazing about a square inch per day. Will be interesting to see what happens. Just wanted to relate my story.
Cheers.
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With algae outbreaks you can't always trust testing as it can be tied up into the alage itself. I've heard mentioned on a few occasions. So probably best to keep a casual eye on those numbers. Good luck
 
MichaelB said:
With algae outbreaks you can't always trust testing as it can be tied up into the alage itself. I've heard mentioned on a few occasions. So probably best to keep a casual eye on those numbers. Good luck
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I am very aware of that. But I would have thought I would see some readings of Phosphates, Nitrates, etc after I have scrubbed every rock clean of algae and vacuumed the sand. I have two tanks both of similar size of 15 gallons and hers is full of carpet algae that I have been hand cleaning for months. They both have similar setups so I just thinking that the carpet algae has just established itself so well that I needed a little helper. So far so good but I just introduced the sea urchin over this weekend and it is cleaning about 1 square inch a day.
 
Alexander1312 said:
Not an expert on freshwater, but is green carpet algae not a freshwater algae? Whatever algae it is, seems your urchin likes it. Lets see how much progress she can make.
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Sounds like cyano actually.

MikiCab said:
My daughter is off to college and I moved her tank from her room to the living room. She always had an issue with Algae. So much so that it looked more like a Refugium rather than a fist tank. After all the cleaning and water changes carpet algae keeps growing in thick. Phosphates, Nitrates constantly near Zero. Added a Tuxedo Urchin and it looks like it is grazing about a square inch per day. Will be interesting to see what happens. Just wanted to relate my story.
Cheers. View attachment 72732
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Does it look like this?

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